Drug "queenpin" gets 27 years in prison

1:08 AM,
Oct. 29, 2012

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Pacific Daily News
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A drug "queenpin" who led a conspiracy that brought methamphetamines from the Philippines to Guam was sentenced to 27 years in prison in the District Court of Guam today.

Gina Medina, 40, has already been in prison for more than two years. She will be released from prison when she is 65.

Medina was the leader of two separate drug conspiracies, and she has been linked to as much 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, or "ice," with an estimated value of more than $1.2 million, said Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood. ...